Excellent Lombards by Jane Hamilton
Thanks to Jordan Rubinstein of Grand Central Publishing, I am giving away one print copy of The Excellent Lombards by Jane Hamilton
Description of Excellent Lombards by Jane Hamilton
From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruthand A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls “a timeless classic…a book you will read and reread.”
Mary Frances “Frankie” Lombard is fiercely in love with her family’s sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda, and expertly tending the orchard with her father, Frankie desires nothing more than for the rhythm of life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical fact that some family members end up staying on the farm and others must leave.
Change is inevitable, and threats of urbanization, disinheritance, and college applications shake the foundation of Frankie’s roots. As Frankie is forced to shed her childhood fantasies and face the possibility of losing the idyllic future she had envisioned for her family, she must decide whether loving something means clinging tightly or letting go.
Praise for Excellent Lombards by Jane Hamilton
“A book with so much grace, wit, and resonance — this is one you’ll read and reread. I surely did. I laughed, I cried, I pondered, I mourned. I took these characters deeply into my heart. Hamilton at her amazing best. A timeless classic, in its first appearance.” — Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“THE EXCELLENT LOMBARDS is everything you could ask for in a coming-of-age novel—funny, insightful, observant, saturated with hope and melancholy. Jane Hamilton’s novel about a young girl’s life on an apple orchard is full of oddball characters and tender scenes that will linger in your memory.”— Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Leftovers
About Jane Hamilton
Photo credit: Leslie Brown
Jane Hamilton lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin. Her novels have won numerous awards, including the PEN Hemingway Award, and The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World were both chosen as Oprah Book Club picks and made into movies. For more information about the author, visit her website at www.janehamiltonbooks.com.
Giveaway of Excellent Lombards by Jane Hamilton
This giveaway is open to Canada and the U.S. and ends on May 20, 2016 at midnight pacific time. Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.
